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from trainyard :
could you please send me your password? vesselland(at)gmail.com
from quincetree :
i added you to my buddy list quite awhile ago and should have left a note before. i really enjoy your entries, there is an unusual directness to them.
from longitude :
thank you dear.. it's my wolf vs. rabbit layout. i hope you're doing well and things are going swimmingly at school.
from mangotuesday :
ohshootimissyoualready.
from orangepeeler :
congratulations!
from mariastuart :
Although you are having very busy days, I've also the impression that you are having nice days. I hope I am correct, in that case: enjoy :) Just enjoy... Law school seems so much interesting than in Belgium. Here you have to work for two months and have ten months of fun...
from trainyard :
no rice? no wasabi?
from direwulf :
yo yo yo....So if you remember I was vexed with whether to run my night run for the 13th year, or go do Havasupai Falls hike. I opted for my run, of course. And the 13th year brought bad luck--my racing chip messed up, and didn't record my preformance. I was like, 7th place overall, and first in my age category. So they wouldn't give me my award, and how can I argue if there was no proof I ran...other than my physical presence....Yeah, I was pissed and I still am. Those people are putting on the race again next year. In 15 years of running, I've never had my chip malfunction. But still it was worth doing....The hiking trip sounded boring.
from longitude :
The shot from 'nuage' is Puu Pehe (sweetheart rock) off the coast of Lanai. It's beautiful and I love that area so much. Best wishes on starting school tomorrow!!!
from longitude :
How's it going? Awesome news about getting into the advanced program!! Hope you're doing well
from longitude :
safe journeys my dear.. xxo
from orangepeeler :
Oh yes he was, he was so mad for life, for good brainy conversation, for poetry and love, even if it wasn't physical, it just had to be mentally aware, and what was even better: he wanted to share it with everyone, it seems, not just poets and intellectuals, but his crewmates when he was a sailor, his little sister, etc. Died too soon at the age of 40.
from longitude :
yves klein has been a long time favourite of mine. yves klein over andy warhol.
from longitude :
[sister's swimming lesson] so sweet. i remember my first swimming lessons and seeing my mom on the sidelines, watching me and making sure i wasn't crying - i had to dive off a diving board the very first day! this is a great summer entry.
from permeation :
thank you. it was taken somewhere in new mexico a few years back. if memory serves me well, anyway. & i know the feeling...
from longitude :
Don't ever grow out of it..
from longitude :
When I have the courage, there is no hesitancy in any of my actions, but often times, I am feeling too self-conscious or aware to be completely unhesitant. I bet your painting is lovely.. xxo
from bi-pet :
i love what you're writing about love and decisions - it is something i'm trying to come to grips with myself.
from longitude :
So good to read about your excitement.. it's uplifting and refreshing.
from spindle :
okay. I am about done my book, which means that I will have time to sit down and write to you soon. and sorry this note is so long in the coming, life has been unusually hectic for the past month. I don't have your email anymore. I lost all my email contacts when my hard drive failed oh so many months ago. send me a message at alanreed at object-a dot org and I will have it again, and soon after that you will have too much to read on the subject of geography.
from mangotuesday :
oh but you are deserving! allmywellwishes. love + thanksgiving.
from orangepeeler :
good luck on your new venture!
from longitude :
I finished Werther last night. It left me feeling frustrated, yet I wanted to read it again, maybe in a different light. There are qualities Werther possesses that I'm surprised to find parallel me, but then there is also such resistance to defeat that I cannot grasp. Definitely interested in knowing what you think of the book. And also, safe journeys.. xxo
from longitude :
how does it feel?
from spindle :
memory. memory is a question I keep returning to, sometimes to draw closer to it, other times to push it away. what I keep coming back to is this: what can take its place? we need something that is close to us to keep us moving. we cannot let the world fall away, we cannot let ourselves fall away from the world. memory keeps up close to it. it keeps us alive to it, it keeps it alive to us. this may be my familiarity with psychoanalytic theory speaking -- psychoanalysis could be roughly defined as the struggle to make sense of memory. but. if not memory, then what? I read what you just wrote as the absence of memory being akin to a desert. what life is possible there?
from spindle :
(I am working on a very long response concerning geography. there is too much tied to it to do it justice in a brief comment. but, that said, yes. you will need warm clothes if you are coming out east. you need to prepare yourself for a wet cold. I've found that many thin layers worn close to the skin works best.)
from longitude :
your latest "memory" just about killed me. i've been having issues with mine. it just won't stop resurfacing with things that i can't bear to think about anymore.
from longitude :
! ! ! congratulations ! ! !
from orangepeeler :
i love your "tennis letters" entry--its elegance defies your statement that language is "sneaky, sometimes cruel, and rarely accurate."
from spindle :
oh, and I found a research institute in the Netherlands that I would love to do a two year residency at. except, of course, that it is not in Montreal, where I performed in a friend's living room last week, as part of the first of a series of salons he is going to be hosting. why, oh why can the world not be all in place!?
from spindle :
though it may seem all grown up and proper, that is not how it will play itself out. it will be scandalous, to the hipsters and the artsy types I hang out with, who have made the untucked shirt on a skinny frame into something of a uniform. it is just that my shoulders are too broad to pull that look off. though yes, there are also questions of growing up and presenting myself as an adult starting to enter into my thinking on these things.
from longitude :
I've got Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther on my shelf and have tried a few times to read it. It's quite difficult for me to get into though.. Please tell me why it's a favourite of yours so I can be motivated to read it.
from secret-motel :
There are crime scene photos in specially marked boxes of Life cereal. Pass me a stick of strawberry mint, please. I can't blow bubbles, but I can chew it up real good and then make little gum sculptures and leave them around the house.
from longitude :
I bought Sweet Berry today. I did see Strawberry Mint and almost went for it. We're gum twins.
from mangotuesday :
mangotuesday is my 'vintage' diary. southeast is where i'm mostly writing now. but i will password you if you send me your email. lovelove.
from secret-motel :
By the time I'm done in your kitchen, your round table will be roughly triangular, your organge juice black, and your oven mitts burnt to a cold, cold crisp. And if you come sit by me, I will extend my arm and you can stare into the pictures shifting in the palm of my hand.
from orangepeeler :
thank you!
from secret-motel :
May I please move into your kitchen? I like cold, sterile places. I will wear a white shirt and a black tie and sit, drinking isolation fluid and reading the newspaper, at your kitchen table. And, anytime someone enters the kitchen, I will just stare at them with that non-expressive facial expression people often accuse me of wearing.
from mariastuart :
Great to see you are so focused on law school. Sometimes I regret I wasn't that focused because law is so interesting! I was 17 when I started law school, that's too young to be mature and study hard. One of my biggest wishes is to do it all over again but now, at this moment, as the person that I'm now. But it's 5 years of study so that's a bit too long...
from mariastuart :
Congratulations! I can imagine how exited this is!
from d1mndn3r0ugh :
Congrats!
from elliestuff :
lucky. i guess.
from spindle :
I have been similarly struggling with a love of place. I am in Montreal now, and I love Montreal. I also want to do a PhD. I am more than likely going to have to move back to the UK to do that and I don't want to. I don't want to leave Montreal. and, like you, I didn't expect the strength of this visceral attachment. I think it is good. in my case, it is something other than my very dry intellectual and artistic ambitions. it is a sign of another kind of life, one that I very badly neglect.
from direwulf :
yeah seriously....everyone has been getting on my case saying, "well, you've done the race 12 years now" But I can go to Havasu Falls anytime...and it's gonna be freakin' cold there!!! It's no fun going there if you can't swim. So yeah I had made my mind up to run the race instead. I am going to get a lot of crap for missing this hike though.
from crestone :
whoa, tough call on this one--both sound amazingly awesome. if it were me though, i'd have a hard time breaking from tradition and i'd probably do the race. you haven't missed it for 12 years and that's pretty major. plus it's not only a tradition, but a personal tradition. i think those are the most important to keep at. havasu will still be there even if the logistics of making arrangements might not happen for another year or so. regardless, either way, you're going to have a blast!
from direwulf :
Ok, so I need some advice. I have a choice to make the first weekend in May. My friends have a hike planned to Havasu Falls near the Grand Canyon, famous for its waterfall and blue-green waters. Or I can stay and run my fave race that Saturday in Scottsdale--a night run that I've done for about 12 years. I have never missed this race, and planned to never miss it. The hike can be done whenever...even though it's hard to get permits and a reserved time during the summer. It's a beautiful place to be...and I'd be with plenty of people. But this race is very important to me...and it's killing me thinking about missing it. So I ask, what would you do?
from silverbiker :
pretty amazing!
from silverbiker :
totally agree on that..lots of backyard memories..ha..amazing
from direwulf :
Tangerine was a song Jimmy Page wrote back when he was in the Yardbirds, and so they finally used it on a Zep album. It's a song about a lost love and a past affair. Hyperbole is in full effect with the 'thousand years between' line. It even has a false start to the song which one could say relates to the false start of said relationship. And that is your Zep trivia for the month!!!!
from direwulf :
I only know Lita's radio songs--the songs I only hear on the radio. I may be more of a Joan Jett fan. I've been trying to her version of Crimson and Clover. I should try to find the Runaways, since they're both in that band.
from direwulf :
I basically took Monster Ballads and condensed it to one cd. So I have Something to Believe in by Poison, Love is on the Way by Saigon Kick, Angel Eyes by Steelheart...and then I added some Cinderella, Great White, and Guns n Roses. Love it!!!
from direwulf :
ha, thats funny...i just listened to Ballad of Jayne on Wednesday. I made a cd of hair metal and I was grooving to those sounds. That is such a pretty song...as is House of Pain by Faster Pussycat, and Don't Close Your Eyes by Kix. LOVE those songs!!!!
from mariastuart :
Wow, that's good news!!! I'm happy for you :)
from mariastuart :
I hope you don't mind I use this place to say Hi to astiocles. Hi! I used to read your diary long ago :) I still have that song "Punchdrunk" and I still like it! Wow, this is from a very long time ago.
from mariastuart :
Have a nice trip!! Trips are fun :)
from astiocles :
the point's beside the rhyme, so keep it up, kid.
from longitude :
that juice sounds ridiculously good.
from permeation :
thanks for the add - your phone call entry is...intriguing to say the least.
from mariastuart :
Good luck!!! I'm sure the results will be good :)
from nicklapse :
realism is a common reaction to the uncommon actions of the idealistic and the imaginative.
from novembre :
NO FEAR.
from orangepeeler :
i love this entry about companionship and your niece's photographs.
from seereason :
Meet you at the airport?
from seereason :
I'll take the trip to Rome off your hands if you don't want it. :)
from mariastuart :
Of course you can have my password but I don't have your mail adres, you can find mine on my profile. I have to admit that I don't write a lot anymore these days...
from mariastuart :
This sounds all so exciting! Keep us posted with the things that are happening. Greetings from another lawyer :)
from direwulf :
uggggg, I've been waking up at 4 in he morning just to get to the trails at 5, so I can enjoy running. 110 is tooooo much. Bring on the Summer rain!!!!
from sparkspark :
An F?! I thought you were going to say, "an A+", which just goes to demonstrate why I am surprised at the end of every movie ever made. Oh, Trevor. I am hesitant to use the word "heartbreaking," because it sounds melodramatic, but really: his creative spirit took a bashing that day, and that is sad and wrong. I'm probably projecting, here. XOXO Violet
from sparkspark :
Poor old romantics: always a little ridiculous.
from sparkspark :
Interesting, your comments on friendship. I enjoyed the entry, although I don't completely agree with it--I think that there is a tendency to appear superficially friendly, especially in Southern California. I came from the East Coast, where it is a different story. It's much harder to get to know people there initially, but the friends I made there, I've kept and hope to keep for life. Anyway, wherever you meet them, eventually you weed out the insignificant relationships. XO Violet
from soon :
no problem. i loved that article. it actually made me cry for some reason.
from dinosaurs :
no! but i am pretty consistently freaked out about the possibility of getting it due to my low citrus intake. plus, this one time when i was eight or nine one of my dad's friends who seemed credible said that i looked like i had scurvy: pale and depressive. i was not, however, bleeding from all my mucous membranes so i've since determined that he was just being a jerk and was in no way concerned for my health. put eat a lot of oranges on your list.
from dinosaurs :
my husband went on a cruise with his family when he was twelve and developed what the ship's "nurse" diagnosed as acne. her advice was to lay out in the sun. it was, unfortunately, impetigo and spread to cover his entire upper lip as one should avoid the sun at all costs with that particular affliction. also, the stabilizers or something broke when they were in the middle of the ocean and most of the passengers were horribly seasick for the whole ride to the closest port which took two days. he describes it as the grossest experience of his life. so don't bother visiting the nurse and listen closely for any reports about the repair of the stabilizers.
from sparkspark :
I like your ideas on perspective and needing an overview before you understand a city. Also, yesterday, I was painting a copper mailbox for someone, and having out-of-proportion anxiety about its perfection. XOXO Violet
from sparkspark :
They WANT your muscles to fail? Damn. XO Violet
from d1mndn3r0ugh :
happy belated birthday!
from themotion :
what about magnanimity? of course, it brings no bread to table, but then when would such a soul ever fear for lack of bread in the first place?
from mariastuart :
I love the conversations between you and your father. It's nice you are sharing them with us :)
from sunkenships :
Hi there, I really enjoy reading your diary. I loved that morning telephone converstaions entry. Deserves to be in a really witty book..have you heard of an author called douglas coupland before? Some of the things you write remind me of his style of writing. - Anna
from astiocles :
Seconded! Hope your new year is fulfilling and all that good stuff.
from d1mndn3r0ugh :
Glad to see you around again.
from novembre :
one singular sensation.
from direwulf :
yay......me happy again....And speaking of tick infested woods, 2 years ago me and my friends went for a 2 week camping trip in Yellowstone. And one spot we stayed in, had ticks all over the place. It was like 2 days later, when I found a couple on me when taking a shower....ewwwww, gross!!!! I took multiple showers, and went through every little thing I camped with....Yeah, not missing that experience.

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